Super Nova Posted November 1, 2008 Report Posted November 1, 2008 Hello, I'm just someone who is curious about whether the Earth has a moon or not because searching this site surprisingly a Random Question asks "Does the Earth have a moon?" and the only accepted answer seems to be a plain "Yes" - not a "No", not a "Perhaps" and not a "Yes, many moons". Hence what if the Earth's moon has a moon of its own? Wouldn't this moon also count towards the number of Earth moons? Just asking, because today I stumbled across this nice moonshot tinypic.com/view.php?pic=879iyvc while surfing tinypic.com searching for "desert" and "moon". Maybe it's just a fake (sometimes also called an illustration). But who knows for sure? And if so, a fake/illustration by whom? Or perhaps could this be an early Apollo 11 test run in the Nevada desert? Anyway, I think this image would look very pleasant as a desktop wallpaper - especially on a desktop at NASA. :-) Enjoy, and so long! P.S.: What color is a red apple? The color would be black if illuminated solely with a green light source. Quote
Moontanman Posted November 1, 2008 Report Posted November 1, 2008 Hello, I'm just someone who is curious about whether the Earth has a moon or not because searching this site surprisingly a Random Question asks "Does the Earth have a moon?" and the only accepted answer seems to be a plain "Yes" - not a "No", not a "Perhaps" and not a "Yes, many moons". Hence what if the Earth's moon has a moon of its own? Wouldn't this moon also count towards the number of Earth moons? Just asking, because today I stumbled across this nice moonshot tinypic.com/view.php?pic=879iyvc while surfing tinypic.com searching for "desert" and "moon". Maybe it's just a fake (sometimes also called an illustration). But who knows for sure? And if so, a fake/illustration by whom? Or perhaps could this be an early Apollo 11 test run in the Nevada desert? Anyway, I think this image would look very pleasant as a desktop wallpaper - especially on a desktop at NASA. :-) Enjoy, and so long! P.S.: What color is a red apple? The color would be black if illuminated solely with a green light source. We've discussed it here before but the gist of it is that gravitational interaction between the Moon and the Earth prevents the Moon from having it's own Moon. Having said that I think it's important to say what to you mean exactly by "Moon". There are a couple of objects that are connected to the Earth gravitationally, they do not orbit the Earth directly like the Moon but they are still held in their own orbits by the Earths gravity. Quote
TheBigDog Posted November 1, 2008 Report Posted November 1, 2008 It is not surprising that earth's moon fits the definition of what a moon is. In fact it seems a bit too obvious to bother asking about at this point. There are other objects with fairly temporary earth orbits... http://hypography.com/forums/astronomy-news/7036-corkscrew-asteroid.html And welcome to Hypography! Bill Quote
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